Read about MIT teacher and practitioner Ernesto Blanco, inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair. This article provides details on the inventor's life, his career outside of MIT, and his inventions that continue to help the handicapped...

This article, first featured in MIT's student newspaper, is a commentary on the life of Richard M. Nixon.

This site from the MIT Invention Dimension provides information regarding the long-distance collaboration of Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller which resulted in the development of the first anti-fungal antibiotic.

This brief article from MIT Invention Dimension on George Washington Carver (1865-1943 CE) provides an overview of his education and his inventions, which influenced the world of agriculture.

This site provides information on Colin S. Twitchell, inventor of the multi-terrain wheelchair. Learn what inspired Twitchell and about his career at MIT.

This article is part of The EdSurge Podcast. Today, there are plenty of middle and high school students who have developed solutions to major economic and social challenges, ranging from health care and transportation to agriculture and...

Biography of Helen Free, detailing her life as a chemist and inventor who developed many products for consumer use, including a convenient at-home glocose level test.

At this site from the MIT Program you can read how Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker, or Madame C.J. Walker, and Marjorie Joyner "founded beauty schools for blacks" and changed the lives of African-Americans.

At this site from MIT Invention Dimension you can read about Virginia Apgar and her accomplishments as "One of Columbia University's first female M.D.s," as a researcher of childbirth, and as the inventor of the "Newborn Scoring System."

Take an academic look at wearable computing with this site from MIT. Check out the research currently going on at the institution, including "fashion shows" of various devices. Also contains "A Brief History of Wearable Computing Timeline".

Details Bill Clinton's health care reform plan.

This site reviews the 1993 production of "Five Guys Named Moe" at Boston's Wilbur Theater. It gives a good summary of the musical, as well as a critique of that production.

According to this article, Elijah McCoy (1844-1929 CE) is one of the most prolific inventors in American history. Read about his parents who escaped slavery by traveling on the Underground Railroad and about his invention, the automatic...

Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown, inventors in New York state who developed the antifungal drug Nystatin, are featured in this brief biography.

Cardiac pacemaker inventor, Wilson Greatbatch, is featured in this brief biography.

Learn about Dr. Patricia Bath, an opthalmologic surgeon, credited with the invention of the Laserphaco Probe, a surgical device used in the removal of cataracts. Learn about Bath's early education, her studies of the blindness rates at...

Use this site to learn about Vinton Cerf, the inventor who co-designed and developed "the protocols and structure of what became the Internet."

Use this site to learn about Lloyd Conover, the inventor of tetracycline, an antibiotic which is used to treat bacterial infections, such as Lyme Disease.

Read about the education and career of Raymond V. Damadian, inventor of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and learn how the MRI has impacted the field of medicine.

This article on Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, credits the inventor for helping create the "interactive, use-friendly" computer interfaces that we have today.

Read about the transcendentalist and inventor, R. Buckminster Fuller, who created the geodesic dome.

Read about Robert Koffler Jarvik, the "inventor of the first permanently-implantable artificial heart." This article provides a biography of the inventor, the reasons why he became interested in creating an artificial heart, and his...

Read about the history of the popular drink, Kool-Aid, and its inventor, Edwin Perkins.

At this site from Massachusetts Institute of Technology you can read about inventors, Anna Keichline and Lillian Gilbreth, who sought to make women's lives easier through their household items.